From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IT236-0007ja-Rj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:04:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l85KvmVW025826; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:57:48 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l85K5D6N013107 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:05:14 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D5826414F for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:05:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.623 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.623 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.424, BAYES_50=0.001, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL=2.046] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id aw0OtxUFPO4c for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.kicks-ass.org (gentoo.kicks-ass.org [88.96.79.190]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8463F642C0 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gentoo.kicks-ass.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 433E224F01; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 21:05:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 21:05:33 +0100 From: Tom Knight To: gentoo-dev-announce@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] forums.gentoo.org leaves the web Message-ID: <20070905200533.GB8575@squark.bogus> Reply-To: tomk@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo development announcement list X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev-announce@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: 9b023109-7b38-4a70-858a-616dfdf744f4 X-Archives-Hash: 1ad33c0659d6e3d279939c8afcd86398 --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable What is the problem, why is it needed? Being a part of OSL[1] data centre forums.gentoo.org relies on their backend database servers, which already have been upgraded to MySQL v5. We need to follow now and have forums.gentoo.org lifted up to v5 too. What will be done? The database will be shutdown and backed up. After some final consistency checks the migration procedures to the new database backend will be executed. If nothing unforseen will happen finally the conversion to full UTF-8 support is the last step. In order to have the needed steps done in the most quickest way the forums administrators decided to shutdown the forums during this time. When will this happen? This activity will most likely be started at 2007-09-08 and will take approximately 48 hours. The actual status will be regularly updated and shown on this status page[2]. What if anything goes wrong? The admins did some extensive tests in prior to find all possible pitfalls. Most of them are already solved, some others need some more tuning before we can start. It can be possible though that some (very) few posts are not converted correctly or usernames with special characters will not be able to login any longer. For the later please send an email to forum-mods@gentoo.org and we will sort that out case by case - please be aware that there might be the need to have your user name changed. Further Information For further questions before and after the conversion, please take a look at this thread [3] in Gentoo Forums Feedback. As it won't be available during the conversion, please visit the status page [2] during that time or feel free to drop by on IRC in #gentoo-forums on freeno= de. [1] http://osuosl.org/ [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/forums/forum-downtime200709.xml [3] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-578773.html --=20 Tom Knight tomk@gentoo.org GPG Public Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomk/tomk.asc --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3wwNPHmTtDdFa6wRAlWkAJ9tdY1wH8fnzdJZPAKQgv1z1VIiMwCcD6N5 wiMkE9qkqGUSeNB3677c23Y= =XPuH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY-- -- gentoo-dev-announce@gentoo.org mailing list